What's new on this site: January-March 2008

For more details, with links, of the latest batch of updates, see the
update page.

17 February 2008:

New material

In the Feet of Fines section, abstracts of fines for Hertfordshire (1358-1422) (575 fines) have been added.

On Professor Robert Palmer's Anglo-American Legal Tradition website,
images of feet of fines for Lincolnshire (1218-1307) (2790 fines) have been added. I have included links to these images in the Feet of Fines section of this website.

New links

Medieval source material on the Internet:

Medieval and early modern texts: by author, H-N:

Historia Brittonum (Elfinspell)Latin text and English translation from the edition of William Gunn (1819).

Public records: Feet of fines:

Walter Rye, ed., Pedes Finium: or Fines, relating to the county of Cambridge, levied in the King's Court from the seventh year of Richard I to the end of the reign of Richard III. (1891) (Google Book Search)
Cambridge Antiquarian Society.

Edw. Alex. Fry and George S. Fry, eds, Full abstracts of the Feet of Fines relating to the County of Dorset, remaining in the Public Record Office, London, (1896) (Google Book Search)
Dorset Records 5; covers 1195-1327.

William Farrer, ed., Final Concords of the County of Lancaster from the original chirographs, or feet of fines preserved in the Public Record Office London. Part 2. Edward II and Edward III. A.D. 1307 to A.D. 1377. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 46 (1903).

William Farrer, ed., Final Concords of the County of Lancaster from the original ... feet of fines preserved amongst the Palatinate of Lancaster records ... Part 3. John, Duke of Lancaster, to Henry VII. A.D. 1377-1509. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, volume 50 (1905).

Frank B. Lewis, ed., Pedes Finium; or, Fines relating to the County of Surrey, levied in the King's Court, from the seventh year of Richard I to the end of the reign of Henry VII. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)Surrey Archaeological Society, extra volume 1 (1894).

L. F. Salzmann, compiler, An abstract of Feet of Fines relating to the county of Sussex, from 2 Richard I to 33 Henry III. (British History Online)Sussex Record Society, volume 2 (1903). Latin abstracts.

L. F. Salzmann, compiler, An abstract of Feet of Fines relating to the county of Sussex, from 2 Richard I to 33 Henry III. (Internet Archive - Text Archive)Sussex Record Society, volume 2 (1903). Latin abstracts.

L. F. Salzmann, compiler, An abstract of Feet of Fines relating to the county of Sussex, from 34 Henry III to 35 Edward I. (British History Online)Sussex Record Society, volume 7 (1908). Latin abstracts.